Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-22

! tations extended by Add L.. Brooks. II
Is needless to remark that several hours
of solid pleasure resulted.
Fred Donaldson has closed a contract
for = large double motor at his wood
yard and feed mill and as soon rs the
machinery is put in he will run by water
power. The Third street main is to be
extended to his establishment.
Sam Folyer has turned over his coal
business to Qleal & Go. and will
branch out In some new enterprise in
the spring. He will attend to coai orders
for Queal l. Go. during the balaace of
the winter aud then retire from the
business.
A gentleman connected with the
Northwestern who. was in town last
week dropped the information that the
Northwestern will build this year from
Centreville to Brookings, via Sioux
Falls. This woald appear to be another
move against the Duluth & Denver.
A local railroad man told a reporter
this morning that the farmers should be
advised to dispose of their grain before
the FIRST OF April as at that time freight
rates will probably be increased and
produce buyers will be unable to pay
even the present low prices. We give
this ss a rumor from railroad sources.
@. M. McCnlium, of Bon Homme, was
in the city on railroad business today,
and ia very enthusiastic owe what he
says is an encouraging outlook for o
railroad from Yankton up the Missouri
river. He says a party Of surveyors have
been at work about ten miles west of
Yankton, that the chalk stone bluffs
hear Pfeifes' lave bean examined crit.
cally by the surveyors and that q road
from Yankton to BonHemme will be
built this year.. @Fi t4t
The information that j. Fl. O. Young,
OF this city, has been appointed clerk of
the court of Dakota 10 received with
qualification and Mr.. Young receives
congratulations with becoming modesty.
Since this position left the hands OF
Judge B. 8. Williams it has been held
by Mr.. Haight, of Bismarck, and his re-
tirement gives 1t again to o Yankton
man. The duties Of the position will.
not interfere with MIR. Young's other
duties as chief deputy for Marshal
Marstta. .HAFs eslRg s
In the Creighton News of the 18th
inst is paragraph to the effect that the
News has good authority for announcing
that Q contract has been let to grade an
extension OF the Northwestern railroad
from Oakdale, Nebraska, northeastward
to q point on the north line Of the state
opposite Yankton. The News says the
line will CROSS the Creighton branch OF
the Northwestern at Plainview. o station
some fifteen miles southeast from
Creighton, and continue in q northeast
wardly direction to the Missouri river.
Oakdale, the starting point, Ia a station.
on the main east and west int OF the
Fremont. Elkhorn & Missouri Valley
division OF the Chicago G. Northwestern
road abont thirty miles west OF Norfolk
1t is sixty miles south and thirty miles
west OF Yankton and the proposed ez-
tension follows a route'th the Duluth &
Denver might pursue in its southwest
ward course from Yankton. II ALSO
covers Territory which would naturally
be occupied by a proposed northeast
ward extension of the Union Pacific
from Albion, a point twenty-five miles
south of 0akdsle. The Northwestern
is moving to head off its competitors. as'
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